Danielle Morrill

CEO & Founder, Groupthink · 1 appearance on the record.

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Danielle Morrill was an early employee and Director of Marketing at Twilio before co-founding and leading the venture data intelligence platform Mattermark. She currently builds software products such as Groupthink, invests through vehicles like XFactor Ventures, and coaches startup founders and executives.

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Insight

Morrill: Overhyped equity options create severe retention crises during repricings

“It's almost like we've taken stock options and we've hyped them up more than we should have, because then you do have this trust problem where if you do have to do something for the survival of the company, Now you're telling a couple thousand people, hey, we …”

Danielle Morrill Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:01 a16z Podcast | Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?

Opinion

Morrill: Young founders build consumer tech because they lack real-world experience

“I think there's just a ton of people who work on consumer products because they don't know anything about the world.”

Danielle Morrill Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:31 a16z Podcast | Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?

Opinion

Morrill: Hopping between mid-stage startups is a smart career tactic

“Actually, you can find people that just hop from, you know, mid-stage startup to mid-stage startup as pretty much a career tactic, which I think is pretty smart, actually.”

Danielle Morrill Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:36 a16z Podcast | Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?

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Morrill: Investor Competition for Rare Unicorns Drives Up Startup Valuations

“And then I think you're also seeing these really massive rounds because what I'm seeing is really competitive deals where investors feel like there's not that many super Unicorn potential startups. They want to pile into those, and so that drives up valuation …”

Danielle Morrill Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:09 a16z Podcast | Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?

Insight

Morrill: Late-Stage Investors Push $100M Rounds to Deploy Excess Capital

“What I'm seeing is a lot of the pressure is coming from that side. It's like, well, we don't want to deploy thirty million dollars, we want to deploy a hundred million dollars, because We don't have another, enough places to deploy its capital.”

Danielle Morrill Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:45 a16z Podcast | Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?

Disclosure

Morrill: Mattermark operates without a board of directors

“Raising these big seed rounds, so we don't have boards for a really long time. Like, I don't have any board members, so I go to my advisors, and I'm trying to work with them and think through a lot of these questions with them”

Danielle Morrill Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:06 a16z Podcast | Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?

Opinion

Morrill: Public markets do not know how to value low-friction SaaS

“I think the public market doesn't even know how to value it, really.”

Danielle Morrill Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:22 a16z Podcast | Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As	Jan 2, 2019	7m

Danielle Morrill

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